Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Rain Forest Puppy breaks his silence

4 years after retiring from the public security scene, rain forest puppy (rfp) breaks his silence and agrees to an interview where he shares his thoughts. For those that haven't been around webappsec that long, rfp is one of the REAL pioneers of the industry who contributed a ton of cutting-edge research that we still use today. You'll also notice that he's a very humble guy who prefers to continue giving back rather than taking the credit he deserves. Welcome back rfp.

I don't think the title of this entry is accurate; I'm not going to change anything about the way I've been going about stuff for the past few years. I.e. I'm not really coming out of 'retirement'. I've always been around, and I've always answered email, and I've always continued to work on Libwhisker...even while in 'retirement'. It's not like I opted for unconditional radio silence....I just chose to stop being a security evangelist as RFP. And that will continue...so in that respect, I am NOT coming out of 'retirement' (defining 'retiremement' as what I've been doing the past few years).

And to the other commenters, nope, I've never owned shiny pants. I did wear lots of shiny shirts to BlackHat/Defcon, and various leather/pleather/[some faux unidentified reptile skin] pants, but never a shiny pair of pants. And I never wore a cowboy hat to Blackhat/Defcon. You must be thinking of the *other* RFP... :)

About Me

Jeremiah Grossman's career spans nearly 20 years and has lived a literal lifetime in computer security to become one of the industry's biggest names. He has received a number of industry awards, been publicly thanked by Microsoft, Mozilla, Google, Facebook, and many others for his security research. Jeremiah has written hundreds of articles and white papers. As an industry veteran, he has been featured in hundreds of media outlets around the world. Jeremiah has been a guest speaker on six continents at hundreds of events including many top universities. All of this was after Jeremiah served as an information security officer at Yahoo!